Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1899 — NORTH BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTH BARKLEY.

May Callahan is on the sick list. Rye and Wheat are all in shock, light crop. Miss Ethel Halm spent the Fourth in Chicago. James Mevers is able to be out and around again. Potatoes will be good in this vicinity this year. Hear the wedding bells. Look out for a wedding soon. Party at Will Collins Saturday night. All report a good time. Mr. Wilson of 111., is visiting his cousin Tom Wilson of Comer. Misses Ella, Kittie and Maggie Callahan spent the Fourth in Whaatfield. Harry Gifford and wife were' visiting friends and relatives and taking in the sights of Chicago last week. Otis Beedy and brother Adina of Blue Island, 111., visited T. M. Callahan Monday and Tuesday of last week. Willis McMurray returned from Dakota recently. He. purchased 400 acres of land and will move there and make it his permanent home. Work on the R. R. is progressing nicely, two miles being graded and one half mile of track being laid on the north end. The route has been somewhat changed, the present way being through DeMotte. Ye correspondent took a drive over Newton county Tuesday and found crops looking fine and well a ivanced for the late spring. Corn ii good and, oats a good average crop, the weather premitting dt will all be harvested in , next, > two wseks. Butin all our travels We jgy *.-*'•• * * never saw an “Onion”